Apr. 7, Headlines - Hillary Clinton released her
tax returns Friday evening. She and Bill
Clinton - among the highest income earners in the US - made 109 million
dollars in the past 7 years. Questions have been raised about 15 million
dollars paid to Bill Clinton that came from a partnership with Ronald Burkle
of Yucaipa Companies, whose investors include the leader of Dubai.
Other questions have been raised about the Clinton's charitable contributions. They
spent 10 percent of their income on charity, more than 90 percent going to
their own family foundation, most of that money hasn't yet been distributed.
The Colombian government has
fired Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist. Mark
Penn's public relations
firm was hired by the Colombians to help them persuade Congress to support
the Colombian free trade agreement, something Clinton has said on the campaign
trail she opposes.
The labor coalition, Change To Win, are one of several
groups calling for Clinton to fire Penn.
At the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis,
TN, the site of Martin Luther King's killing, presumptive Republican nominee
John McCain.
"I was wrong, I was wrong."
He admitted to a disheartened crowd that he opposed
a national holiday honoring King.
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